He talked about a close call last year not far from the Battle Monument School in Dundalk.

"I was loading a wheelchair, and a motorcycle came up behind me, went up on the sidewalk on the right-hand side of the bus, ran my lights and came down right in front of me. I said, 'Are you kidding me?'" Maust said.

The head of school transportation said his goal is to track motorists caught breaking the law.

"If a bus driver does see a car running their stop signs when they are deployed, we do take down their tag number, and we do turn it over to the Baltimore County Police Department. They do follow-up with that motorist," said Jim Mitcherling, director of transportation with Baltimore County schools.

There is a price to pay for breaking the law in Baltimore County. Passing a bus at a school stop is a $570 fine and a three-point penalty on a driver’s license. There's also a $570 fine for stopping and then passing school buses. Besides the fine, motorists will receive a two-point penalty.

11 News education reporter Tim Tooten witnessed some infractions on board a Baltimore County school bus last year with driver Kristen Volz.

"Every day is a struggle, but our job is to do our best to make everybody happy and get our kids to school safe, and we keeping working it out every day," Volz said.

They're hoping to do so with more cooperation from the driving public.